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How to Evaluate Whether You Made an Effective Career Decision

Lead Change Blog

Tom made a major career decision 3 months ago: he decided to leave his position as chief information officer at a large manufacturing firm to become an entrepreneur and start a company to provide software that helps manufacturers improve the quality of their manufacturing process. The Science of Effective Decision Making.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

Much later, Joseph Moses Juran , one of the fathers of the quality movement, called the insight the "Pareto Principle" and applied it beyond economics. In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." He found a willing audience in Japan, where the country had been producing low-cost, low-quality goods.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

“It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” ” Here are some tips on how to make that transition as seamlessly as possible. It could be in “how you bring people together, how you use your network to get work done, how you communicate with stakeholders, or the broader perspective” you provide.